SCPA building takes final bow as a school

Building dedicated by President Taft

4:58 PM,
Jan. 5, 2013

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For the first time in more than a century, the school building at 1310 Sycamore St., will no longer be a school.

The building, 1973 to summer 2010, was home to the old School for Creative and Performing Arts, before being auctioned off by the Cincinnati Public School district in November. It will likely be converted into some type of housing. But most in Cincinnati will always consider it a school.

The building has been an educational fixture in Cincinnati's Pendleton neighborhood for more than a century. Generations of schoolchildren were educated within its walls. ...